An angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2023.000068

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (2): 330-338.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000068

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An angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors

Lin GAN(), Zehao WU(), Xuesong WANG(), Jianbing LI()

State Key Laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environmental Effects on Electronics and Information System, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Received:2022-07-04 Accepted:2023-03-16 Online:2024-04-18 Published:2024-04-18
Contact: Jianbing LI E-mail:ganlin16@nudt.edu.cn;wuzehao17@163.com;wxs1019@vip.sina.com;jianbingli@nudt.edu.cn
About author:
GAN Lin was born in 1999. She received her B.E. degree in information engineering from the College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, in 2016. She is pursuing her M.S. degree of information and communication engineering in the College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology. Her research interest concentrates on radar passive jamming technology. E-mail: ganlin16@nudt.edu.cn

WU Zehao was born in 1999. He received his B.E. degree in information countermeasures technology from the College of Electronic Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, China, in 2021. He is pursuing his M.S. degree in electronic information at the College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology. His research interest concentrates on radar passive jamming technology. E-mail: wuzehao17@163.com

WANG Xuesong was born in 1972. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He is currently a professor with NUDT and his research interests concentrate on radar information processing and target recognition. He is a fellow of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded as one of the 100 excellent Ph.D. dissertations, China, in 2001 (two years after his graduation). He was also granted the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and other similar talent titles. E-mail: wxs1019@vip.sina.com

LI Jianbing was born in 1979. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in aerospace science from the College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering for his work on the analysis of wake vortices’ scattering characteristics from the College of Electronic Science and Engineering, NUDT, in December 2010. He is currently working as a full professor with the College of Electronic Science and Technology, NUDT. His research interests include new concept radar design and distributed soft target detection. E-mail: jianbingli@nudt.edu.cn
Supported by:
This work was supported by the Equipment Pre-research Project (GK202002A020068).

Abstract

Abstract:

Passive jamming is believed to have very good potential in countermeasure community. In this paper, a passive angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors is proposed. The amplitude of the incident wave can be modulated by switching the corner reflector between the penetration state and the reflection state, and the ensemble of multiple corner reflectors with towing rope can result in complex angle decoying effects. Dependency of the decoying effect on corner reflectors ’ radar cross section and positions are analyzed and simulated. Results show that the angle measured by a monopulse radar can be significantly interfered by this method while the automatic tracking is employed.

Key words: monopulse radar, angular blinking jamming, corner reflector, amplitude-comparison angle measurement, metasurface

Lin GAN, Zehao WU, Xuesong WANG, Jianbing LI. An angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2024, 35(2): 330-338.

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Parameter	Value
Initial target position/m	(8000,4000,8000)
Target velocity/(m·s⁻¹)	(−200,0,0)
Target RCS/m²	2
Mainlobe width/(°)	2.72
Beam deviation angle/(°)	0.5
Bandwidth/MHz	0.5
Carrier frequency/GHz	11
Pulse width/μs	5
Signal-to-noise ratio/dB	20
Measuring sampling period/s	0.005
Tracking sampling period/s	0.005
Standard deviation of the system noise	0.1
Standard deviation of the observation	(0.02,0.01,0.02)

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